Wyoming County, PA
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 41.53, -76.01.
Assembled 2026-10-07. Read the brief.
- 52nd pct · 1,454th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 59th pct · 28th of 67 Pennsylvania counties · median $233,681
- counties in the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 3 counties in the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 38th pct · 1,880th of 3,063 US counties · median +2.9%
- 24th pct · 51st of 67 Pennsylvania counties · median +3.4%
- counties in the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 3 counties in the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- US counties: not published this period
- Pennsylvania counties: not published this period
- counties in the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 3 counties in the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 53rd pct · 1,504th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 12th pct · 59th of 67 Pennsylvania counties · median 27,809
- counties in the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 3 counties in the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 84th pct · 507th of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 75th pct · 17th of 67 Pennsylvania counties · median $1,102
- counties in the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 3 counties in the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 34th pct · 2,014th of 3,063 US counties · median 4.3
- 48th pct · 35th of 67 Pennsylvania counties · median 3.8
- counties in the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 3 counties in the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
Typical home value divided by the average annual wage of one covered job.
A percentile here is a min-max scaling of average rank: the smallest published value in the cohort is 0 and the largest is 100, and tied values share the average of the ranks they span. It is not the share of entities below the value, so 0 means smallest, not none below. Entities that did not publish the metric are outside the cohort entirely and are counted in neither the rank nor its denominator.
Home values #
Typical home $242,130 (Aug 2026), +1.9% over one year, +9.5% over five
- 52nd pct · 1,454th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 59th pct · 28th of 67 Pennsylvania counties · median $233,681
- counties in the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 3 counties in the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Wyoming County, PA | $242,130 · +1.9% 1-yr |
Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), typical value of homes in the 35th to 65th percentile, smoothed and seasonally adjusted; a model estimate of value, not a sale price. Data through Zillow Research.
Rents #
Zillow publishes no rent index for this area (ZORI covers about 1,400 counties)
- US counties: not published this period
- Pennsylvania counties: not published this period
- counties in the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 3 counties in the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI), smoothed, all homes and multifamily; price-to-rent = typical home / (typical rent × 12).
What the typical home costs to carry #
Principal and interest of $1,325 a month on $242,130 at 7.28%, against an average weekly wage worth $5,603 a month: 23.7% of one job’s pay.
- payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $242,130 × 80% = $193,704, r = 7.28%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-01), n = 360 → $1,325/mo principal and interest
- wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $1,293 × 52 / 12 = $5,603) = 24% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
- years of wages = $242,130 / ($1,293 × 52) = 3.6
The wage is one covered job’s average, not a household’s income, so this is the share of a single paycheque and not a mortgage underwriting ratio.
Estimate. Principal and interest on the typical home with 20% down over 30 years at this week's Freddie Mac average rate; compared with the average weekly wage of all jobs covered by unemployment insurance in the area (BLS QCEW), which is pay per job, not household income.
Jobs & wages #
9,396 jobs at 709 employers (2026 Q1); 0.0% jobs and +4.6% average weekly wage over the year
- 53rd pct · 1,504th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 12th pct · 59th of 67 Pennsylvania counties · median 27,809
- counties in the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 3 counties in the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Wyoming County, PA | 9,396 jobs · $1,293/wk · 0.0% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manufacturing | 2,236 | $1,873 | 2.96 | +1.8% |
| Retail trade | 1,239 | $667 | 1.35 | +4.4% |
| Transportation and warehousing | 1,047 | $1,777 | 2.64 | -5.8% |
| Accommodation and food services | 662 | $393 | 0.78 | -1.9% |
| Health care and social assistance | 655 | $1,007 | 0.46 | +5.0% |
| Construction | 585 | $1,306 | 1.19 | -6.1% |
| Administrative and waste services | 451 | $743 | 0.84 | +17.1% |
| Other services | 285 | $616 | 1.01 | -4.4% |
| Wholesale trade | 259 | $1,197 | 0.72 | -7.2% |
| Professional and technical services | 224 | $1,610 | 0.35 | +0.0% |
| Finance and insurance | 188 | $1,351 | 0.49 | +0.0% |
| Mining, oil and gas | 152 | $2,995 | 4.54 | -12.1% |
BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, all ownerships, total covered employment in the quarter's third month; over-the-year changes as published. Suppressed cells stay blank.
Drought #
No drought class at this point (USDM covers the United States only)
Sites found: 5, searched within 0 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 0 km away are not.
US Drought Monitor current week; the highest class of any polygon containing the point.
Reservoirs #
Surface water layer not loaded
Sites found: 0, searched within 150 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 150 km away are not.
Σ(capacity × percent full) / Σ capacity over TWDB reservoirs within 150 km. Texas only; elsewhere USGS reservoir elevation/storage is listed without a capacity to normalise by.
Stream gauges #
Surface water layer not loaded
Sites found: 0, searched within 75 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 75 km away are not.
USGS latest readings screened against EPA freshwater criteria (DO ≥ 5 mg/L, pH 6.5–9, conductance, turbidity, temperature); NWS flood categories where a NWPS gauge is co-located.
Groundwater #
No USGS monitoring wells within 75 km (or above 1,500 km)
Sites found: 0, searched within 75 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 75 km away are not.
USGS latest daily water levels. A single latest reading says where the table is, not which way it is moving; select a well for its 365-day trace.
Water stress #
low (0.00)
Σ wᵢ·termᵢ / Σ wᵢ = 0.35×0.00 / 0.35
Banks & federal dollars #
$784.7 m in deposits at 9 offices of 5 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 2,730, highly concentrated. $189.8 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $181.9 m, grants $7.8 m), $20,200 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Peoples Security Bank and Trust Company | $308.2 m · 39.3% share · 3 offices | |
| Community Bank, National Association | $212.7 m · 27.1% share · 2 offices | |
| First National Bank of Pennsylvania | $134.7 m · 17.2% share · 1 office | |
| Wyoming, PA | $189.8 m FY2026 · $20,200/job | |
| MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS | $179.4 m · top recipient FY2026 |
| Institution | Deposits | Share | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peoples Security Bank and Trust Company | $308,151,000 | 39.3% | 3 |
| Community Bank, National Association | $212,744,000 | 27.1% | 2 |
| First National Bank of Pennsylvania | $134,737,000 | 17.2% | 1 |
| PS Bank | $91,306,000 | 11.6% | 2 |
| Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company | $37,800,000 | 4.8% | 1 |
Deposit concentration is 2,730 across 5 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls highly concentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 5 banks with deposits in the county = 39.3² + 27.1² + 17.2² + … (2 more) = 2,730
FDIC Summary of Deposits: deposits at every insured office as of June 30, annual; HHI is the sum of squared county deposit shares (DOJ 1995 bank merger screen: 1000 / 1800). USAspending: obligations by place of performance for the latest complete federal fiscal year (Oct 1 to Sep 30), what agencies committed, not what they paid out; recipients are legal entities. Per-job divides obligations by BLS QCEW covered employment.
Federal obligations #
USAspending place-of-performance obligations for FY2026, by awarding agency.
| Awarding agency | Obligations |
|---|---|
| Social Security Administration | $161,836,151 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $16,779,481 |
| Department of Transportation | $7,303,938 |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development | $2,613,040 |
| Railroad Retirement Board | $789,949 |
| Department of Agriculture | $418,371 |
| Federal Communications Commission | $58,925 |
| Small Business Administration | $0 |
That is $20,200 per covered job, against 9,396 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $189.8 m / 9,396 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $20,200
USAspending obligations are recorded where the work is performed, so a prime award performed here is counted here even when the recipient is headquartered elsewhere. Recipients are legal entities, never people.
National context, not this county #
These are United States, single-gauge, single-state and port series. None of them is keyed to this county.
| Series | Latest | As of | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi River at Memphis, stage · ft | not published | not published | |
| Mississippi River at St. Louis, stage · ft | not published | not published | |
| Ohio River at Louisville, stage · ft | 12.69 | 2026-10-05 | +3.3% |
| Missouri River at St. Joseph, stage · ft | not published | not published | |
| Colorado River below Hoover Dam, flow (Hoover releases) · ft³/s | 5,170.00 | 2026-02-05 | -25.3% |
| Texas reservoirs, statewide percent full · % | 72.60 | 2026-10-06 | +0.0% |
| Laredo truck crossings, monthly · trucks | 258,700.00 | 2026-08-01 | -0.4% |
| Los Angeles + Long Beach container volume, annual · TEU | 10,513,167.00 | 2023-01-01 | -13.5% |
| Containerships waiting for a berth, all US ports · ships | 3.00 | 2026-10-06 | -50.0% |
| Shanghai to Los Angeles container rate · $ per 40 ft box | 7,848.00 | 2026-09-01 | +14.9% |
| US diesel retail price · $ per gallon | unavailable | not published | |
| WTI crude oil, spot · $ per barrel | 96.16 | 2026-09-29 | -3.2% |
| 30-year fixed mortgage rate · % | 7.28 | 2026-10-01 | +3.6% |
| Housing starts, annual rate · thousands of units | 1,275.00 | 2026-08-01 | -2.6% |
| Building permits, annual rate · thousands of units | 1,403.00 | 2026-08-01 | -2.1% |
| Case-Shiller US home price index · index, Jan 2000 = 100 | 337.31 | 2026-07-01 | +0.1% |
| Unemployment rate · % | 4.20 | 2026-09-01 | +2.4% |
| US goods and services trade balance, monthly · $ millions | -105,572.00 | 2026-08-01 | -13.7% |
| Retail sales excluding food services, monthly · $ millions | 646,347.00 | 2026-08-01 | +1.1% |
The indicator registry has no county-keyed series and no geographic selection: every entry is national, a named gauge, a single state or a port. They are here as the backdrop the county's own numbers move against, and they are never this county's readings.
What changed #
Wyoming County, PA: 4 findings, 1 at a watch level and 3 noted
watchWyoming County, PA's covered employment of 9,396 scores 53 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 12 across Pennsylvania counties, a gap of 41 points.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- 41 = |53 across US counties - 12 across Pennsylvania counties|
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteWyoming County, PA's average weekly wage was 4.6% higher than the same quarter a year earlier in 2026 Q1, on BLS QCEW's published over-the-year change.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- +4.6 % = BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change for 2026 Q1, as published
- the newest QCEW file carries no year-earlier level, so no move from one level to another is printed
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published
noteThe next Zillow ZHVI typical home value (monthly) covering Wyoming County, PA is due between 2026-10-14 and 2026-10-21, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern.
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- window = 2026-10-14 to 2026-10-21, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern
estimated from the publisher's past release pattern; not an announced date
noteThe next Unemployment rate (BLS Employment Situation, monthly) covering Wyoming County, PA is due between 2026-10-30 and 2026-11-13, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern.
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- window = 2026-10-30 to 2026-11-13, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern
estimated from the publisher's past release pattern; not an announced date
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